Example: steel peal stale peel
1. | Bert | Curt | shirt | Bart |
2. | coot | loot | soot | shoot |
3. | relate | fete | weight | height |
4. | spook | took | look | rook |
5. | food | mood | brewed | good |
6. | sewed | glued | chewed | nude |
7. | jerk | clerk | work | shirk |
8. | packed | backed | baked | fact |
9. | scene | sign | mean | convene |
10. | laze | phase | days | size |
11. | peak | steak | leak | cheek |
12. | soot | cut | put | foot |
13. | height | tight | weight | might |
14. | stalk | work | fork | cork |
15. | quite | night | lied | light |
16. | clear | bear | hare | fair |
17. | barred | bared | hard | yard |
18. | duke | spook | look | Luke |
19. | taught | court | snort | coughed |
20. | priced | missed | fist | kissed |
Ex. 10.9 Spelling tests:
a) Each word here has the sound [e]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:
ready desk bread instead against leather | hello next helpings said breakfast sledge | meant again when enemy hedgehog pencil |
b) Tick the words that have the vowel sound [ ɒ ]:
catch pond bones pocket what bought | job home blank road house roof | wife doctor popular soup close horse |
c) Each word here has the sound [Λ]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:
touch stuff drum rough among glove | tongue dug mother trust done month | country enough son double couple muddy |
d) Each word here has the sound [f]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:
laugh coffee herself face enough | officer fact elephant gift off | epigraph roof farmer rough telephone |
e) Each word here has the sound [eI]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:
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hay main trail may save | gate tray fail lane sail | stage paint stay place game |
f) Each word here has the sound [i:]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:
seed dream sleep wheel team | grief week niece delete complete | sea eve field meat scene |
g) Each word here has the sound [aI]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:
find dime fly right quite | tight bright pile ninth kind | mine dry line flight sigh |
h) Each word here has the sound [əυ]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:
doze moan snow goat hold | stone cold joke gold bowl | road code grow float blow |
i) Each word here has the sound [u:]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:
moon chew glue blew zoo blue | clue drew rule true threw June | school pool rude include gloomy boot |